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A fun history of "soccer" versus "football." Also, it reports, "Wealthy students [in the late 1800s] had 'a habit of shortening words and adding "-er" to the end' to make slang terms. For example: breakfast becomes brekker, rugby became rugger." Does anyone still say "brekker" for breakfast?

For my sociolinguistics friends. :)

Is there a Chrome extension that automatically selects "decline all cookies" or whatever minimum cookie selection is allowed by every website? I have to be the only one still manually clicking those boxes for every new website I visit, right?

I checked to make sure this delightful word is real: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/feestbe... context.reverso.net/translation/...

I get to listen to this parody of Alanis Morissette's "Ironic" for work today. :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwIB...

Actually Ironic - CollegeHumor [LD]YouTube video by YounEnvouteusewww.youtube.com

Pat tore his Achilles tendon a couple of days ago, and dear universe, I swear I ALREADY KNOW everything can change in an instant. No further reminders are necessary.

THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS — I'm enjoying the audiobook. :)

Update: I bought beach chairs.

Authors and readers often struggle to answer the question, "What's the book about?" @thejoeltruth.bsky.social says it's because they're trying to *describe* the book instead of *sell* it. Here's how to do better: LISTEN: buff.ly/KAxHL95 READ: buff.ly/2y0Pvd3

I got two fillings today, and I am grateful to live in the age of modern dental care. And I am even more grateful to live in the age of pharmaceuticals right now because, holy mother of god, that was a lot of pain. 😬

I love this!

The British language magazine "Babel" is on Bluesky! Here's the post about their writing competition for young linguists with alt text. "The competition is open to all linguistics students in further and higher education, i.e. at sixth-form, college or university."

Pat does not eat cheese on his burgers, but when someone asked who wants cheddar and who wants Swiss, Pat asked, “Why not both?” Pat is now the hero of dinner.

Ginger mint lemonade at the parade. Highly recommend!

Sharing my best (US-based) money-saving tip again: Pirate Ship. I just mailed a big box of papers that would have been ~$19 if I had taken it to the post office. It was only $10.30 with Pirate Ship. I printed out the label at home and still dropped it off at the same post office. pirateship.com

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This came up in a recent interview I did with Daniel Hahn about translating Shakespeare. "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day" doesn't hit the same in some countries.

My camera doesn't do it justice, but I feel like I could sit and stare at this ocean forevermore.